I'm just a geek like you. Unemployed at present, looking for something to occupy my time.

I've been using Netscape from the original mozilla days. Switched from Netscape 4.76 to Mozilla when the release candidates became useable. I can email you a picture of my Netscape t-shirt :)

My question came from trying one of the filters you suggested we try in another thread, the one about the ultimate filter: rue-8.06.03 to be exact. When I entered this into adblock, my Pentium III 700mhz machine went into slow motion.

Now I use the filter posted by Weber, it seems to be working good. I've unpacked the source and I'm getting familiar with how the code is layed out, I'm learning how to program in XUL.

Basically, I'd like to help out. I too detest huge ads taking up precious screen real estate and making me scroll down to read what I originally came to see. Until I'm familiar with XUL, I decided to be a monkey and test different filters and such.

One suggestion would be to include some basic filter lines in the default install. Sort of what you have on the screenshot in the mozdev home page.